Gmat Verbal Quesion - Hognose SNake

[holmes.erin]

The hognose snake puts on an impressive bluff, hissing and rearing back, [u]broadens the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does, feigning repeated strikes,but, having no dangerous fangs and no venom[/u], eventually, if its pursuer is not cowed by the performance, will fall over and play dead.

a..
b.broadens the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does and feigns repeated strikes, but with no dangerous fangs and no venom,
c.broadening the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does and feigning repeated strikes, but it has no dangerous fangs and no venom, and
d.broadening the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does and feigns repeated strikes, but with no dangerous fangs and no venom, and
e.broadening the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does, feigning repeated strikes, but with no dangerous fangs and no venom, and

Source: Gmat Prep
OA: C
Please explain....I had gone with E

[holmes.erin]

any help here?

[RonPurewal]

please search the forum... thanks

see here
post4918.html#p4918

[RonPurewal]

by the way --

if you do this sort of thing:

any help here?

all you're doing is knocking your post back to the END of the line.

we answer posts from oldest to newest, so, if you "bump" threads, you are actually consigning your post to the absolute bottom of the inbox.
fyi